1629 - Go ahead and vote. See if it matters.

This is a documentary from 2006. It's about the Diebold voting machines and how they can be hacked. How Diebold won't admit it. And how some people proved it.

So you say they've had time to fix them? Well they told some people back in 2006 that everything was fixed. It wasn't.

The film is broken down into three segments for YouTube. 29 minutes, 29 minutes and 22 minutes. If you don't want to watch the whole thing (you should) just watch the last 22 minute segment. The title of the video is Hacking Democracy. The person posting this added their own title comment 'PROOF ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED!'. I think it should have said proof elections CAN be rigged and some were.

Hey it's Saturday. You're just sitting around doing nothing anyway, right?







Now that you've watched that you're looking for more info right? Here's some links.

http://blackboxvoting.org/ The group that was formed because of the documentary.
http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/ The site about the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy The Wikipedia link.

And then I found this little tidbit on one of the sites about how an election programmer learned his election programming trade in jail.


Elections programmer Jeffrey Dean was convicted on 23 counts of felony embezzlement by rigging a computer system to steal money from a law firm whose partners included Watergate figure Egil Krogh. He began working on elections programming while still in prison, on work release.

Diebold memos show that he was involved in development of GEMS central tabulator "double set of books," optical scan absentee "vote remote" system, and more. Shortly after being released from prison, together with John Elder, a narcotics trafficker Dean met in prison, Dean began doing computerized ballot printing and created mail-in ballot software, with a company called "Spectrum Print & Mail." He sold this company to another company, "Global Election Systems", which had been founded by three swindlers, two of whom did prison time (the third was ordered by the courts to pay hundreds of thousands in restitution for bilking investors.) Dean took a position as the main stockholder and head of programming for Global Election Systems; Diebold purchased Global Election Systems in 2002, retaining most of the programmers that built the swiss cheese "open for business" voting system.

Don't you just love the unregulated free market system?